OMG!!!!

[Guest guest]

I'm totally freaking out now and need a few group hugs here!

I was reading a post about someone here who was involved in an

Explant Assistance program in the Dow Corning Settlement.

I'm a claiment, so I dug out a book I had, and called the number

about the Explant program.

The lady I talked to told me that I am no longer a Dow Corning

Claiment because they " found out " that my implants are Bristol, not

Dow Corning or whatever. I did not know this.

So the lady gave me the number of the Bristol office so that I can

see about assistance with removal.

Now, right after I got my implants, 16 years ago, I sent in all my

paperwork to my lawyer, who mailed it in to Dow Corning,where, all

these years, I've been receiving paperwork every few months from

them.

Basically, I did not know my size bags, or anything about my

implants-just that I had told the surgeon that I wanted saline

implants and to make them " not too big " .

So this Bristol lady pulls my records a few minutes ago and I am now

IN SHOCK.

She told me that I have 400 Surgitek Gel round SILICONE implants!!!!

OMG!!! All these 16 years, I have thought my implants were SALINE,

and I'm now finding out that they are SILICONE!!!

I'm FREAKING OUT RIGHT NOW!

No wonder I've been sick!

So anyway, to make a long story short-the lady is sending me some

paperwork to fill out, and they are going to cover $1,000 of my

explant, and then AFTER I pay to have them removed, they will

reimburse me for another $3,000.

I am going to check into getting a loan to cover the rest. I have

been unable to find a surgeon who does En Bloc in Memphis, Tennessee.

I'm FREAKING OUT over this!